PORT ANGELES — The ladder is gone, and sometime this week, “PAHS hearts Brandi” will be removed too.
A crew with Affordable Crane Service of Port Angeles removed the ladder on an inoperative smokestack at Port Angeles High School on Friday, and the graffiti on the stack — which stems from a boiler no longer in use — is to be painted out early this week, said Jeff Clark, Port Angeles High School associate principal.
The ladder was the means by which vandals climbed up to paint or, as in one recent case, hang a banner emblazoned with the words “Class of 2009.”
“Fortunately, no one was injured doing it,” Clark said.
Taking the ladder down removed an “attractive nuisance,” he explained.
“We’re more worried about somebody falling off than graffiti, though we don’t like the graffiti.”
Clark doesn’t know who Brandi is, but he does know that the first time she was immortalized, the graffiti read, “I heart Brandi.”
That was painted over by a Port Angeles Fire Department crew, who used the opportunity as a training exercise, Clark said.
Almost immediately, “PAHS hearts Brandi” appeared.
And whoever Brandi is, she may be long gone, just like her admirer.
Clark said he knew who painted it, and the student is no longer at the high school.
